Skip to main content
. 2021 Jan 21;71(3):226–234. doi: 10.1007/s13224-020-01420-7

Table 2.

Studies on screening characteristics of UtA-PI (at ≥ 95th percentile) at 11–14 weeks of gestation for PE and GH

N (n/N%) Prevalence of PE 95th percentile Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%) LR + 
GH PE EOPE PE EOPE FGR PE EOPE PE EOPE PE
Martin et al. [3] 3045 1.5 2.35 27 50 95.4 95.1 11 4.5 99.8
Gomez et al. [4] 999 2.2 24 30 50 95.1 95.4 11.3 97.9-
Pilalis et al. [5] 893 2.1 2.52 23 60 6.7
Cnossen et al. [19] 4966 (PE low risk) 25 95 5.4 5.4
433 (PE low risk)

SPE

40

SPE

90

SPE

4

SPE4

3045

(FGR low risk)

75
999 (FGR low risk) SFGR 95
785 (high risk) 76
Poon et al. [14] 7977 2.9 2.45 18 36* 37–84*
Napolitano et al. [6] 6221 2.9 20.7
Woschitz et al. [20]

139

(high risk)

18 2.5 22 88 29
Marcolin et al. [17] 162 (low risk) 9.25
Yasmin Casmod et al. [16] 144 (low risk) 5.8 2.7
Neravi et al. [21] 100 (low risk) 22(45% of these had severe PE) With preeclampsia the mean PI at 12–16 weeks was 0.9573 and at 24–26 weeks was 0.7968, which was statistically significant (p < 0.0001) as compared to non-preeclamptic women. Hence along with uterine artery diastolic notching and UtA-RI, UtA-PI can be used as a Doppler index for detecting preeclampsia
Abdel Moety GAF et al. [22] 100 (low risk) 2.37 100 56
Present study 100 9 2.8 20 77.7 83.3 98.9 97.87 94.25 87.5 71.42 97.8 98.2 70.7

N = sample size; n = total affected cases; SPE severe preeclampsia; SFGR severe fetal growth retardation;* The estimated detection rate of EOPE, for a 5% false positive rate, was increased from 37% in screening by maternal factors alone to 78% with combined screening by maternal factors and biophysical markers. This was further improved to 84% with serum PAPP-A. However, there was no significant positive contribution from addition of serum PAPP-A to maternal factors, MAP and UtA−lowest PI in the prediction of late PE and GH